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The Wrong Job for a Great Tool: The Hidden Costs of Using Excel for BOM Management
This whitepaper outlines some of the hidden costs of managing your BOM with Excel and compares Excel with a modern system designed specifically for BOM management.
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Three Steps to Cost Control: Addressing the Root Cause of Unexpected Product Costs
Many companies continue to rely on outdated processes and “free” tools like spreadsheets to manage their product information. These may seem like money-saving shortcuts but often end up being costly and time-consuming. The paper explains how a dedicated bill of materials (BOM) management system can help prevent unexpected costs and provides 3 essential steps to get your processes and systems in order. Download now
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Beyond Colored Folders and Spreadsheets: Next- Generation Document Control for the Medical Device Industry
Medical device manufacturers face unique obstacles in effectively managing and securely sharing their product information. This whitepaper gives insight into how automated, electronic solutions can help medical device companies better manage their device master record (DMR), design history file (DHF) and change orders. Download now
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The Wrong Job for a Great Tool: The Hidden Costs of Using Excel for BOM Management
Many companies still rely on “free” programs like Excel to manage their product BOMs. This whitepaper outlines some of the hidden costs—such as failed products, missed delivery dates and blown cost targets—and compares Excel with a modern system designed specifically for BOM management. Download now
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Turning Great Designs Into Great Products: The Changing World of Mechanical Design
As the provider of an on-demand Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, Arena Solutions has worked with over 300 companies across diverse industries to improve their product development and manufacturing processes. Through seven years of working with customers, Arena understands the daily challenges companies face in effectively turning designs to products. In this paper we hope to shed some light on this very important topic. Download now
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Estimating Product Costs During Development
Accurate whole-product cost information during development is critical for effective product planning, yet many organizations struggle with outdated tools that fail to provide timely cost estimates. This paper evaluates current solutions for managing cost data and compares them across several quantitative and qualitative criteria. Download now
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The Arena Guide to Outsourcing
The Arena Guide to Outsourcing describes a new solution for outsourcing that lets you focus on your product development and work seamlessly with outsourced manufacturers and vendors. Download now
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Manufacturing Outsourcing: Seven Common Pitfalls to Avoid
Through our years of experience in working with electronics OEMs and CMs, we have observed seven common pitfalls that impact manufacturing outsourcing success. In this whitepaper, we will offer more insight on these seven common mistakes and steps that can be taken to address them. Download now
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Manufacturing Outsourcing for Small and Mid-Size Companies: Ten Key Challenges and How to Address Them
Small and mid-size companies must pursue outsourcing with more planning, preparation, analysis, and due diligence than larger companies. This whitepaper examines ten key challenges that smaller companies may face when outsourcing their manufacturing—and potential solutions for how to successfully address those challenges. Download now
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New Product Introduction Challenges & Solutions
In today’s competitive global market, innovative products are not enough. Companies must radically rethink the way new product introductions are managed in order to accelerate time to market, reduce product cost, and adhere to increasingly stringent environmental and regulatory requirements. Download now
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Beyond BOM 101: Next Generation Bill of Materials Management
In the world of hardware development and manufacturing, the bill of materials (BOM) is a critical product information record for both the engineering and manufacturing teams. Learn how automated Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions can help companies effectively manage and communicate product information and succeed in the competitive. Download now
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Collaborative Tools for Product Development: A New Approach
Collaboration is promised as a benefit of many product development tools, but most fall short. This Arena whitepaper, Collaborative Tools for Product Development: A New Approach, defines a vision for collaboration in product development and explains how Arena PLM fulfills it. Download now
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Transition to RoHS: The Seven Common Pitfalls to Avoid
When it comes to the RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) Directive, good things do not come to those who wait. This directive, which severely limits the use of six hazardous substances—most notably, lead (Pb)—in products shipped to the European Union (EU), is set to take effect in July 2006. Similar requirements will take shape in China, Taiwan, Japan, and other countries in the near future. Download now
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Documenting RoHS Compliance: 7 Tips from the Field
With the European Union’s (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive set to take effect on July 1, 2006, manufacturers (or “producers”) who ship to Europe must ensure their products are fully RoHS-compliant-that is, that they don’t exceed maximum concentration levels of certain hazardous substances. Download now
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Product Change Management: Three Challenges, Five Fixes
There’s no need to settle for inefficient, frustrating product change management. This whitepaper outlines three product change management realities you need to understand, five fixes to rescue your change process and one strong solution. Download now
